actually I tried to make a clear form and got confused all the way. Since there is no change in process, please follow the instructions below.
We should have a fixed email for this, maybe we have and I just lacked the memory to remeber. So now the rules state I should sign all artifacts. Others may concatenate their signature if they want. Do we follow this? On 05.11.18 17:54, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Keith N. McKenna wrote: >> In his second vote announcement Peter also specified that to cast a >> non-binding vote one still had to download and compile the source on >> ones own machine and then test that binary. This is far over and above >> anything that has ever been required for a non-binding vote. > > Whether a vote is binding or not depends entirely on the role: due to > legal issues, votes from PMC members are (always) "binding", meaning > that they are counted separately, even though everyone is welcome to > vote. > > We need to have on record at least three PMC members who built from > source and tested for the vote to be considered valid. The threshold > of three is a hard requirement. > > While building would be required of other people too, we've > historically not been very rigid on this, provided that voters in > general, so both PMC members and people from the community at large, > simply write (a subset of) what they did. > > Summarizing: > > - If you, PMC member or not, feel that the release is good enough, > please do vote and say something "+1; I tested the Italian version on > MacOS, opened ODF and .docx files, everything was OK" and nobody will > ask you whether you built from source or not; this is very valuable > feedback as we would have very limited platform/language coverage > otherwise. > > - In order to close the vote successfully, at least 3 PMC members must > explicitly write in their statement that they built from source and > tested their own builds. This ensures we meet the minimum requirements. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
